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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkSAGE, Russell
(1816—1906)
SAGE, Russell, a Representative from New York; born in Shenandoah, Oneida County, N.Y., August 4, 1816; moved with his parents to Durhamville in 1818; attended the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Troy, N.Y.; treasurer of Rensselaer County 1844-1851; alderman of Troy 1845-1848; delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; moved to New York City in 1863; became president and director of several railroad companies and financial institutions; died in Lawrence, Long Island, N.Y., July 22, 1906; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
Bibliography
Sarnoff, Paul. Russell Sage: The Money King
. New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1965.
Remsen, Jane. “Russell Sage: Yankee.” New England Quarterly
11 (March 1938): 4-28.
Sage, Russell. Speech of Hon. Russell Sage, of New York, on the professions and acts of the President of the United States; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; the outrages in Kansas; and the sectional influence and aggressions of the slave power. Delivered in the House of Representatives, August 6, 1856
. Washington: N.p., 1856.
Sarnoff, Paul. Russell Sage: The Money King
. New York: I. Obolensky, 1965.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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